A Review of 2010…Looking Ahead to 2011

This past year has been one of excitement and challenge, filled with the grace and faithfulness of God. BCI continues to expand its capacity to reach more people with the message of biblical sufficiency in the counseling task. Over the last twelve months, we have witnessed God working in the lives of pastors, vocational ministers, church leaders, and laity as the Body of Christ is reoriented to Scripture as the single source of transformational power in the Christian life.

In Review:

• 2010 produced over 200 new graduates of the Certificate Program in Biblical Counseling. Another 300 students have attended seminars and distance learning opportunities. This has been accomplished through training groups in Florida, Alabama, Texas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and now, through Distance Education.
• BCI faculty have presented training in regional and national conferences in biblical counseling including the Midwest Regional Conference in Biblical Counseling and Discipleship and the Annual Biblical Counseling Conference held each year at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
• Pastor Larry Creamer has joined our faculty and is serving a key role in BCI’s development in the Midwest.
• The ministry has created new training sites which allow students to gain hands-on counseling experience as part of their supervised training. New sites were established in: Destin, Ft. Walton Beach, and Gulf Breeze, FL along with our midwestern training site in Appleton, WI. These combined with our existing training sites in Fairhope and Mobile, AL and Fort Worth, TX, give BCI a strong presence in the Midwest, Southwest, and Southeast regions of the U.S. For more information on our upcoming seminars and training groups, visit the BCI website: http://bcinstitute.com/CertProgram/schedule.html
• BCI has further expanded our outreach through the development of Distance Learning for those unable to attend our regional seminars. It is now possible to complete the entire Certificate Program via the Internet. For information regarding the BCI Distance Learning Program, visit our website at: http://bcinstitute.com/CertProgram/Distance_Learning/index.html
• Finally, we have increase our capacity to provide Continuing Education to our graduates and former students through a Web-based membership on the BCI website. This membership allows students and graduates unlimited access to articles, audio/video files,and podcasts, created to enhance and further one’s study of biblical counseling. For membership information and access to continuing education, visit the BCI website: http://bcinstitute.com/ContinuingEd/index.html

Looking Ahead…

• BCI continues to provide its Certificate Program in Biblical Counseling through our various training locations in Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Wisconsin.
• We continue to create new training location through churches and ministries throughout the U.S., providing live seminars and case supervision for our students.
• With the expansion of Distance Learning, we now have student groups attending the BCI Certificate Program in Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, Croatia, Russia, Australia, and Nova Scotia along with distant locations within the U.S. without access to our training sites.
• We now are providing online biblical counseling, case supervision, and consultation available through out website: http://bcinstitute.com/Counseling/index.html
• Soon, we will provide a national data back of certified counselors on the BCI website as a referral resource for those seeking biblical counseling.

We at BCI, are grateful for your ongoing support of our ministry…but especially for your support of the message of scriptural sufficiency. Scripture is fully sufficient for the counseling task and superior to any secular resource available. Thank you for advancing a biblical worldview and for calling the Body of Christ to reclaim this critical area of ministry. May God bless you richly in the coming year!

Your Servant,

Ab Abercrombie

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